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The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : more than 200 international lady artists a worlds congress of famous performing beauties

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Title: The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : more than 200 international lady artists a worlds congress of famous performing beauties
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Zweifel, John, former owner
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of numerous female acrobats and aerialists performing in a tented circus arena, including acts with a unicycle and trapezes; a woman in a red costume with a parasol walks a tightrope in the left foreground.
"17.B.175"--text, upper right margin. "Copyright 1917 by / The / Strobridge / Litho. Co. / Cincinnati & New York."--text, bottom center of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 72.39 x 97.47 cm (28 1/2 x 38 3/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000012
381884
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1748
Language: English
Subject: Barnum and Bailey
Acrobats--Pictorial works
Advertising--Circus
Aerialists--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Women circus performers--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1910-1920. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Circus
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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